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Submission from Eric Weathers received on September 14, 2001 via e-mail
Subject: Canadian copyright reform
I am against a radical reform of the current copyright system, here are some of the issues that I take difference with :Legal Users would not be able to make legal back up copies for the eventuality of media failure. Legal Users would also not be able to use a single media on two computers, as in one home and one business. Or when a Legal user upgrades his computer the media may not recognize the new system.
The term of protection, in this era of rapidly increasing technology, it would be more practical if term of protection was reduced to 20 years after the death of the author. Leading corporations will not be substantially affected by a change of the term of protections, they can afford licences, but this change would help private individuals or small businesses to innovate because they would not have to deal with licencing issues.
Reverse Engineering is used in business to get similar products onto market, this helps prevent monopolies from forming, and the preventing of market stagnation. Under the new laws reverse engineering would be illegal. Anti-Trust proceedings as in the MicroSoft case, can provide some consumer protection but take a long time, during which the consumer has little actual protection.
If there is a ban placed on the publishing of Encryption vulnerabilities, this will only hurt business and lawful citizens, content pirates will take there discussions underground and legal users will not be able to benefit from that discussion.
Thnak you for your consideration.
Sincerly :
Eric Weathers
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